It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

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Success isn’t something that happens overnight: it’s a process. You have to nurture it along with continuous care, and the best way to do this is to have the right people working with you - not for you, but with you. I can dream alone and strive alone, but true success always requires the help and support of others.

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I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people. ― Marcus Aurelius

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You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey

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Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

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Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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The criminal justice system punishes people for their poverty. ― Kamala Harris

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley. ― Robert Burns

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